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Cleitagora

Κλειταγόρα

(Κλειταγόρα), a lyric poetess, mentioned by Aristophanes in his Wasps (5.1245), and in his lost play, the Danaids. She is variously represented as a Lacedaemonian, a Thessalian, and a Lesbian. (Schol. in Aristoph. Vesp. 1239, 1245, Lysistr. 1237; Suid. Hesych. s. v.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.